A MegaCollection
Websites that host free games can be found in the Find More section in Freeware. ★ marks sites I can personally recommend. Please let me know of anything else I could add in the comments at the bottom.
Databases and Collections |
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| The Internet Archive | The archive for the web and home of the Wayback Machine. Try this stumbler. |
| Archive.today | Alternative web archiver. |
| You're The Man Now Dog | The cause of many old memes. Whole bunch of sites in a similar style and the ability to make your own. |
| The Cutting Room Floor | Unused videogame content wiki. |
| Hidden Palace | Community that preserves videogame development media. |
| The Fighting Game Glossary ★ | Glossary of fighting game terms. |
| Nestflix ★ | Shows within shows. |
| Title Scream ★ | Gallery of title screens from 8 and 16 bit games. |
| Archiverse | Miiverse Archive. |
| Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute | A whole host of aesthetic styles. |
| Fonts In Use | Database of fonts and where they're used. |
| INT 10th | Old PC fonts. |
| Velvetyne Type Foundry | Open-source fonts. Cool design. |
| Textfiles.com | Archive of old text files. |
| The Chess Variant Pages | Variants, versions, and alternate takes on chess. |
| Nuzlocke | List of Pokémon Nuzlocke challenges. For info on Nuzlocke, see this explainer by the guy who originated it. |
| GUI Gallery | Pictures of various Graphical User Interfaces |
| Kaomoji | Japanese emoticons. |
| Three Hundred Mechanics | Gameplay concepts. |
| Speedrun.com | Everything you need for speedrunning, from leaderboards to resources. |
| TASVideos | Tool Assissted Speedrun videos and community. Also |
| Mobile Phone Museum | Charity with sortable gallery of old phones. |
| BBS Guide Telnet BBS Guide | Searchable indexes of BBSes. |
| Amiga Graphics Archive | Art made on the Commodore Amiga. |
| Console Variations | All versions of consoles. |
| Steve's Old Computer Museum | Vintage computers. |
| VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas | Screenshots of videogame maps. |
| FailScout | Product reliability, crowdsourced. Index of how long do things last and how to fix them. |
| VGMdb | Complete videogame OST database. Also includes where to buy |
| Speed Demos Archive | Speedrun videos. |
| The Unsent Project | Unsent texts to first loves. |
| Awesome | Github-hosted lists on a lot of stuff. |
| Steam 250 ★ | Steam discovery website. |
| Game Detectives Wiki | Wiki of ARGs. |
| tapedeck.org | Tapes of all designs. |
| Flipnote Archive ★ | What the title says. Old Flipnotes from the Hatena days, archived. |
| My Famicase Exhibition ★ | Yearly expo of fictional Famicom game carts by Japanese game store Meteor. Site in Japanese. |
| bash.org | Chat room quotes |
| PostSecret Post Secret Voicemail | Anonymous secrets. Not affiliated with each other. |
| DoesTheDogDie.com | Crowdsourced content warnings. |
| WhoSampled | Samples, covers, and remixes database. |
| Sixteen Colors | ASCII art. |
| Fanlore | Fandom history wiki. |
| Let's Play Archive | Forum-based Let's Plays. Try out the story of Boatmurdered ★. |
| Glitch Gallery | Beautiful software bugs. |
| Port Forward | Guides to forwarding your ports per router. |
| Arty Widget | Art made with code. |
| Driftory | Comics viewer and creator based on Scott McCloud's Infinite Canvas |
| iptv.org | Internet Protocol Television URLs. |
| Everything2 | Linked writing of all types. |
| Interface In Game Game UI Database | Video game UIs. |
| asciicinema | Videos of terminal sessions in a special player. Also the program you can use to record your own. |
| Video Game Preservation | Github archive of commercial videogame source code. |
| Fold 'N Fly | Instructions for all types of paper airplanes. |
| The Toaster Games Database | Games that work on low-spec hardware. Hosted on Neocities. |
| MICROTRANSACTION.ZONE | Games tagged with their monetization tactics. |
| FEMICOM Museum | Preservation and archival of girls games and electronic toys. Features a large collection dedicated to the Casio Loopy. |
| The Old Robots Web Site | Pictures and videos of old robots. |
| Genders.WTF ★ | Bizarre gender fields. Some of them even recreated on the site. |
| The Shills List | Recommended web fiction and fanfiction. |
| commandlinefu.com | Useful CLI commands. |
| Scene.org | Official demoscene website. Currently being rebuilt, has links to other sites. |
| FindThatMeme | Millions of memes, searchable by text in the image or by similar images. |
| Dumbphone Finder | Where to buy dumbphones. |
| Mii Library | Every officially used Mii ripped from the sources, with QR codes. |
| The Video Game Library | Videogame books. |
| SNES Manual Archive | A complete collection of English language SNES manuals. |
| Lospec | Pixel art (and more) resources and tools. |
| KrazyDad | Printable puzzles. |
| Museum of the Game | Game systems, coin-ops, and flyers. |
| Internet Pinball Machine Database | Encyclopedic record of pinball machines, with a detailed advanced search function. |
| RetroGamer's Code-Wheels Collection | Interactive code wheels for older games. |
| BBS Xchange | Banner exchange for BBSes and BBS sites. |
| The Minecraft Archive Project | Project to save Minecraft worlds and mods. |
| OLD-COMPUTERS.COM | Old computers, consoles, and software. |
| OoCities.org | GeoCities archive. |
| Unauthorizon | Console clones and bootlegs. |
| StratDB | Techniques and exploits for videogames. |
| DoesItPlay | How palyable games are without an internet connection. |
| The Cover Project | Gallery of covers and manuals, including custom covers. |
| The Arcade Flyer Archive | Arcade and pinball flyers. |
| Hall Of Light | "The database of Amiga games." |
| Library of Babel | An actual, indexable Library of Babel. |
| Internet Checkpoint | Archival of the comments on the original videos by taia777. |
| PalmDB | Apps, emulators, and BIOS ROMs for the Palm OS. |
| You Say Potato - I Say Fuck You | Anthropomorphic objects. |
| The Interface Drama Master List | Games that tell stories through user interfaces. |
| Engines Database | All sorts of game engines and fantasy consoles. |
Also see: some of the fansites |
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Interesting |
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| Homestar Runner ★ | The iconic web series. |
| After The Tone | Random answering machine messages. |
| John Doe ★ | Site made with only one HTML page. Hosted on Neocities. |
| CSS Zen Garden Style Stage | CSS showcases. |
| A Single Div | CSS drawing showcase. |
| Sokpop | Game collective that makes a game every month. |
| Dynamic Designs | Old translation group. |
| Surfcity | Background TV for the web. |
| Low-text Magazine | Solar powered website. |
| Aesthetic Compasses ★ 80s/90s Explanation 2000s Explanation | Good Twitter threads on an intresting subject. |
| CatCam | Live feed of cats as images updating every minute. |
| Cyberspace and Time | Website that functions like an OS. |
| Windows93 ★ | Quirky web OS. |
| Infinite Mac | Old Macs in the browser. |
| Toki Pona | Conlang with less than 200 words. |
| Ithkuil | Extremely complex conlang. |
| Dopefish ★ | Official site of the Commander Keen enemy/reference. |
| Center for the Study of the Public Domain | Duke Law School site about the public domain. |
| ichi Vistaserv | Neocities alternatives. |
| Video Game Obsession | Good-looking site. |
| SpeedRunsLive | Tools to manage speedrun races. |
| Super Pixel Quest ★ | Single-page webcomic. |
| Wolfman Museum | Online museum dedicated to art and multimedia, navigated like a first-person adventure game. |
| VOLE.wtf ★ | Cool stuff. |
| MSCHF ★ | Online stunts. |
| Neal.fun | Funky web things. |
| New Session | Zine hosted with telnet. |
| what3words ★ | The entire world divided into named grids. |
| Deleted City | Geocities visualized as a town. |
| The SCP Foundation | Famous collaborative horror fiction wiki. |
| The Wanderer's Library | Collaborative fiction project. Sister site to the SCP Wiki. |
| Orion's Arm | Collaborative science fiction writing project. |
| Run your own social ★ | Guide to running a small social site. |
| This Website Will Self Destruct | ...unless it gets a message every 24 hours. |
| the html review | Poetry for the format of the internet. |
| Interactive 4D Handbook ★ | Great way to learn how 4D space works. |
| PixelCanvas.io | r/place on an infinite canvas. |
| cmd.to | Command line internet OS. Also does music. |
| MeatballWiki | "Community of active practitioners striving to teach each other how to organize people using online tools" |
| Teletext Viewer | Simulate teletexts in the browser. |
| Living Worlds ★ | Mark Ferrari pallette-cycling pixel art. (iOS/Android versions) |
| ANSIWAVE | Modern BBS. |
| Skytopia | Every page is designed different. |
| WebXP | Windows XP-like thing. |
| Archipelago | Multigame randomizer with multiplayer. |
| Apollo In Real Time | Real time moon landing simulator, complete with a custom dashboard. |
| Authoritative Minesweeper | Minesweeper strategy guides and downloads. |
| All Your Base Are Belong To Us ★ | Dedication to the Zero Wing mistranslation. |
| Ship Your Enemies Glitter | Prank gifts. |
| You Need Feeds | RSS advocacy site with a bunch of starter pack OPML files. |
| internet-ti.me (Swatch Internet Time/.beat time) Elementary Time (tenpo ko) (Clock for the latter) (Alternate clock) | Alternate timekeeping systems for the internet. |
| BrantSteele.net | The Hunger Games Simulator and many more. |
| Insecam | Directory of unsecured surveillance cameras around the world. |
| Segmented type appreciation corner | Create text on segmented type displays, in multiple variants. |
| tixy | Creative coding. |
| Indie Game Jams | Timeline of upcoming game jams. |
| Darkpattern.games | Game review website focused on dark patterns. |
| Llamasoft ★ | Page of Jeff Minter's games. |
| Practical Typography | Web book. |
| TRaSH Guides | Easy to understand guides for Sonarr/Radarr and related stuff. |
| Streetpass ★ | Browser extension for finding Mastodon users. |
| Crowd Control | Twitch tool that lets vievers control the games a little. |
| asciiweb | Create HTML websites out of ascii art. |
| Break Into Chat | Wiki about BBS door games. |
| Free-Penguin Project | Free sewing patterns to create Tux plushes and toys. |
Blogs and Newsletters |
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| Legends of Localization ★ | All about video game translation. |
| 50 Years of Text Games ★ | Newsletter about text games and interactive fiction. Completed. |
| Garbage Day ★ | Newsletter about the internet. |
| Read Only Memo ★ | The latest news from the world of emulation. |
| Tedium | Blog about very specific topics. |
| 30pin ★ | Online magazine about consumer technology. Currently inactive. |
| The Obscuritory ★ | Lesser-known games. |
| Bad Game Hall of Fame ★ | Sincere examinations of bad games. |
| Critical Distance ★ | Curated videogame articles. |
| The History Of The Web | Every entry adds to a timeline. |
| Handheld Underground | Bootleg games and rom dumps of them. |
| Lunatic Obscurity | Obscure videogames. |
| Gaming Hell | Long-running old games website. |
| Before Mario ★ | Nintendo before they were a videogames company. |
| McMansionHell | Architectural education by taking down shitty houses. |
| Dracula Daily | Bram Stoker's Dracula, emailed to you in real time. |
Tools and Resources |
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| Zonelets (Itch.io) | Blogging engine that works with Neocities (or other sites). |
| Piperka ★ | Webcomic tracking and bookmarking. |
| Teksti | The above for web fiction. |
| LaTlmes | Fake news link to rickroll generator. |
| The Death Generator | Make videogame screens say anything you want. |
| Objection.lol | Create your own Ace Attorney objection and courtroom scenes. |
| JSKidPix | Kid Pix but online. |
| You.com | Alternative search engine that works differently from others, summarizes results. |
| NeoCities "Site to User-Profile" Tool ★ | Bookmarklet to jump to profiles. |
| Learn X in Y minutes | Programming language tours. |
| 10015.io | A lot of tools. |
| Can You Run It ★ | Automatically check system requirements for games. |
| RSS Box | RSS feed generator for websites via API. |
| Redditle | Reddit-only search. |
| Flipnote Player | Play Flipnote files. |
| AdBlock Tester | Test your adblock. |
| favicon.cc | Favicon maker that uses the actual favicon to preview. |
| FrogFind | Modern search engine for old computers. |
| Mermaid Elizabeth's MS Chat Resources Link Page | Connect MS Comic Chat to a modern IRC chat server. |
| Alter Dark | Customizable screensavers for the NES. |
| Earthbound Battle Background JS | The Mother 2 battle backgrounds, rendered in JS. |
| Safety Sign Generator | Create your own safety signs. |
Goofy Jokes |
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| Gail.com | When you mistype gmail.com. |
| Monkey Island Inflation | The ending of The Secret Of Monkey Island, adjusted for inflation. |
| Zombocom | ??? |
| Crouton | What the title says. |
| rotating sandwiches RamenHaus | Good quality gifs. |
Music |
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| Nightwave Plaza ★ | Vaporwave radio station. |
| Poolsuite | Summer-themed radio station with Mac-style OS. Sells NFTs for extra features. |
| Rainwave | Videogame music radio. |
| Jet Set Radio Live | Multiple music stations, including other Sega games and similar styled music. |
| OverClocked ReMix | Videogame remix community. |
| Webamp Github | Winamp in the browser. |
| The Mod Archive KeyGenMusic keygenmusic.tk keygenjukebox.net | Tracker and keygen music. |
| muki BitMidi | MIDI archives |
| Chip Player JS | MIDI player with visualizer. |
| Music Player for Reddit | Turn Reddits into playlists |
| musicForProgramming(); ★ | Cool UI. |
| cmd.fm | Command line style player. |
| lofi.cafe | Lofi hip hop radio, other channels too. |
| Cirrus Radio | Retro game music player with the ability to toggle sound channels. |
| UpBeat Radio | Modern radio site and community. |
| 8Beats | Videogame music radio. |
| The Eternal Jukebox | Make infinite versions of any song on Spotify. Also features The Autocanonizer, which plays songs against a changing, offset version of itself. |
| Every Noise at Once | Listenable map of music generes. |
| musictheory.net | Interactive lessons on how to write sheet music. |
| KHInsider Video Game Music | Videogame music downloads. |
| Sitting on Clouds | Album downloads for games and animation. |
| DON'T YOU LECTURE ME WITH YOUR THIRTY DOLLAR WEBSITE | Memetic music creator. |
Fansites |
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| Super Mario Bros. The Movie Archive | Ultimate resource of its turbulent production. |
| Homestuck Music Wiki ★ | Complete database of music from Homestuck and beyond, including fan tracks. |
| MSPaint Fan Adventures ★ | Fan-made Homestuck-likes. |
| Homestar Runner Wiki ★ | One of the most comprehensive fan wikis. |
| JJ2 Clan Ladder Lori Central Alister.eu/jazz | Jazz Jackrabbit fansites. |
| KeenWiki Community Portal | List of Commander Keen fansites. |
| Yolkfolk.com | Dizzy fansite. |
| Chao Island ★ | Chao fansite and information hub. |
| Bit Busters Club | Chip's Challenge community fansite. |
| 11 Via Verde | Achewood companion site with archives of the comments and references to all the blog posts. |
| TWC Classics | Weather Channel audio, video, and images. |
| halome.nu ★ | Relive the chill title menus of all the Halo games. |
| Sidetalkin' | Pictures of people sidetalking on the Nokia N-Gage. |
| 64DD.org ★ | N64 Disk Drive fan site with ROMs, hacks, and conversions to cartridge formats. |
| TempleOS ★ | Religious operating system known for its infamous creator. See also: SCUM Games in Freeware. |
| Highway Frogs | Frogger 1997 modding forum. |
| Four Job Fiesta | Challenge run for Final Fantasy V. |
| TresCom | Mods and more for Jurassic Park: Trespasser. |
Freenium Web GamesNon-freenium games are listed under the freeware list. |
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| Fallen London ★ | Story and text based MMO-like. (Subscription and microtransactions, energy system) |
| TETR.IO ★ | Tetris. (Subscription) |
| Kingdom of Loathing | Stick figure MMO. (Rewards from donations, energy system) |
| Board Game Online | Obtuse, goofy board game thing. (Rewards from donations) |
| GeoGuesser | Guess your Street View location. (Subscription) |
| Lostgamer | Geoguesser for videogame worlds. (Subscription to remove ads) |
| AI Dungeon | GPT-powered infinite text adventures. (Subscription and microtransactions) |
| New York Times Crosswards | Includes other games too. (Subscription) |
| Chess.com | Chess site. (Tiered subscription) |
| Neptune's Pride Blight of the Immortals | Real-time social strategy games, competitive and cooperative respectively. (Subscription and microtransactions) |
| Minesweeper Online | Self-explanatory. (Ads, subscription) |
| Little Golem Board Game Arena | Board games online. (Subscription) |
| Colonist | Catan clone. (Subscription and microtransactions) |
| Sokoban Online | That old puzzle game. Complete with new mechanics and level editor. (Microtransactions and single purchases) |
| TagPro | Capture The Flag without weapons. (Donations) |
| NationStates | Nation roleplay and simulation. (Single purchases) |
| Improbable Island | Bizarre and aincent text MMO. Hosts free banner ads for non corporations. (Donations) |
| PLAY-CS.COM | Counter-Strike 1.6 in the browser. (Subscription) |
Retro Console Stuff |
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| Hacks.Guide ★ CFW Guide ★ Wii Guide ★ pspunk CFW Guide ★ ConsoleMods.org | Hack your consoles. |
| GameBrew Open Shop Channel (Wii) Homebrew Store (PSP) | Homebrew apps and games. |
| Sudomemo ★ | Revival of the Flipnote Studio Hatena web service. Also lets you view them in the browser. |
| Kaeru Gallery ★ | The above for Flipnote Studio 3D. |
| Kaeru Team | Runs the above, as well as replacement servers for Miitomo and Pokemon Duel, as well as a proxy to Wiimmfi on DS. |
| Playnote Studio | Flipnote player for the Playdate. |
| Playdate Community Wiki | List of resources and games. |
| DSiPaint 3DSPaint | Forums and apps for the DSi/3DS browsers. |
| RiiConnect24 ★ | Revival of WiiConnect24 services. Subsites: RiiTag (Dynamic gamertags for Wii and Dolphin Emulator), Everybody Votes Results, Check Mii Out Miis and other Mii resources |
| WiiLink ★ | Alternative to the above, focused on the Japanese exclusive channels. The Food Chanell can even order actual food! |
| Wiimmfi ★ | Revival of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (Online Wii and DS games, mostly used for Mario Kart Wii). Also has a friend code converter for region locked games. |
| DoujinSoft Store | WarioWare D.I.Y. archive. Includes games, records, and comics. Includes an online viewer and player (even the games are playable!) and can send/receive games to/from WarioWare D.I.Y. Showcase on a RiiConnect24-using Wii, or from savefiles. |
| WiiNet | Enables a bunch of features if visited with the Wii Internet Channel, including games, chat, and YouTube. |
| rverse ★ | Miiverse revival project. |
| Pretendo ★ | Nintendo Network revival (Wii U and 3DS online services and games), including Juxtaposition, a Miiverse replacement. |
| Theme Plaza ★ | Custom themes, splash screens, and badges for modded 3DSes. |
| Satella Zone ★ (Neocities profile) | Nintendo Zone archival and revival. |
| 3DS-RPC | Add Discord Rich Presence to 3DS. Compatible with RiiTag (above). |
| Dreamcast Live | Hub for online Dreamcast gaming. |
| Insignia | Replacement for the online servers for the original Xbox. |
| Retrocomputing.Network XBAND Server | Reimplementation of XBAND for old consoles. |
| 240p Test Suite (Itch.io) 240p-test-mini (GitHub) | Application ROMs for testing video output of consoles and capture cards. Includes MDFourier, for comparing audio signatures. |
| DS-Homebrew Wiki | Misc Sites |
DiscoveryWebsites to find more websites. |
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| r/InternetIsBeautiful | Subreddit about cool sites and tools, usually single-purpose. |
| Stumbled | Stumbleupon spiritual successor. |
| Websurfer | Similar tool made by Sadness. |
| Daniel's Network | Search engine and directory for old-web/web revival sites. |
| Curlie | Largest human-edited directory of the Web. |
| Wilderness Land | Islands with hidden links made in Google Slides. |
| Oldest Search | Search ordered by the oldest results. |
| Marginalia Search | Search engine for non-commercial pages. |
| Million Short | Trim the top sites from the results. |
| Lindy Hacker News | Best of old Hacker News articles. |
Suggest more in the comments!